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Two days later, on a clear and clear day, the Pistons came to Indiana to hold their season finale.

They suffered two consecutive successes and failures at home, and their morale has fallen to the bottom. The whole team, including the main player Anthony, has no intention of fighting. It is like a white-collar worker, going to work on time and getting off work on time.

Pacers don't have to take out Qian Liangcheng's performance to win the game because their opponent has given up.

104 to 93

The 11-point gap is the smallest score difference in the last three games.

"I declare that the days when the Pacers and the Pistons dominate the East, the endless and touching days of their confrontation are over."

Bobby Leonard witnessed the Pacers’ four confrontations with the Pistons in six years.

In the end, the confrontation ended with three wins and one loss in Pacers, and it went to the end.

4-1, the Pacers defeated the Pistons and advanced to the semi-finals to face another opponent they met for three consecutive years.

Red Bull.

"I hope they cause big trouble to the Bulls, don't be easily dealt with like the Knicks. Because we were easily dealt with by the Pacers, if the Bulls also handled them easily, we would appear weaker than we thought." Anthony, depressed, blessed the Pacers in a tone that was least like blessing.

In the four first round series in the East, only the Celtics and the Bobcats did not end, and others, such as the Pacers, Cavaliers, and Bulls, all eliminated their opponents and entered the semi-finals.

The game in the West is more intense.

The Spurs and the Mavericks fought endlessly, but the Suns advanced early.

On the contrary, the Lakers, the number one in the West, are one of the only two 60-win teams this season, and their record is even better than the Bulls. After five years of leading the team alone, Kobe finally led the Lakers to the top of the West, and his team scored the first record in the league.

Everyone thought they would make a great stride until they fought against the Bulls or the "Golia" who eliminated the Bulls in the final. But no one expected that they would have fought against the Houston Reds in the first round for five games, and they could not decide the outcome.

3 to 2

The Lakers, who were in the front position, won the match point.

They have Kobe, Kidd, Gasol, and a very energetic role player, and what about the Red Team? They have only Yao Ming, Josh Howard, the half-waste McGrady, and other unknown but scattered in the future.

In the sixth game, Yao Ming collided with his opponent and fell down.

The Toyota Center is silent like a computer crash.

More than ten minutes later, cheers came from the aisle like the whistling trains in the early 20th century. At that moment, the winner is hard to decide, and the Red Team, who lost the Giant God, will be defeated by the Lakers' stars at any time.

The audience was so nervous that they couldn't breathe. What happened to make them react like this?

"Yao is back!!!"

The announcer of the Toyota Center shouted excitedly.

The Lakers are familiar with the story of the return of the king.

Wasn't Willy S Reed, who defeated the great Chamberlain and "logo" and others more than 30 years ago, defeated by a similar return ceremony?

What will happen this time?

In the sixth game, the Red Team won.

3-3, the series is not over yet, they are going to do everything in Staples.

After that game, Yao Ming was announced to be reimbursed for the season. His lower limbs were traumatized again, requiring surgery and time to recover. The whole time was added up to more than half a year.

In the lost Yao Ming, in the seventh game, the Red Team had no hope of winning.

They bite three quarters with the Lakers and were defeated.

In seven defeats, the Rockets won respect like last year's Bobcats.

The Lakers have been criticized for this, but not as miserable as last year's Celtics. Because their opponents don't look as vulnerable as the Bobcats or the Heat. Fans who have watched the game will admit that the Lakers are encountering a Steel Division and they shouldn't be dragged until Game 7.

The Red Team deserves encouragement and praise, and what the Lakers need is reflection.

"If we can't wake up from our pride and complacency, we will definitely not be able to play the final." After the game7 victory, Phil Jackson said to reporters with a serious expression.

On the night when the Red Team was eliminated, Xie Hou called Yao Ming.

They chatted for hours.

Xie Hou originally wanted to enlighten him and try not to talk about the topic of the game, but it was basketball that supported them to chat for several hours. Yao Ming told him about his unwillingness and helplessness. He is undoubtedly the second player in Chinese history - second only to Xie Hou.

Unfortunately, he won not many championships at home or abroad.

When he debuted, it was the peak of the Bayi team.

Even though he worked hard in China for four or five years, he only helped the Shanghai team win a championship tripod, which was won after Lao Wang went to the United States. In addition to that championship tripod, Yao Ming's honor was very limited.

At the National Games, he was defeated by the God of War Liu Sansou.

In the Asian Games, two minutes of encountering Korean black.

The Asian Championships made some contributions, but at that time he was the No. 1 pick of the NBA, and it was necessary to dominate Asia. In the 2004 Olympics and the 2006 World Championships, his success was inseparable from Xie Hou (Xie Hou also cannot do without him). At the NBA level, after playing for seven years, his best result was in the Western Conference Finals. He had no idea what the floor in the finals felt.

"I won too little compared to you," he said.

"You have won the respect of others." Xie Hou comforted shallowly.

Yao Ming asked: "Do you want to win the game or win respect?"

"Usually, you can win respect as long as you win the game." Xie Hou seemed to be digging a hole for himself, but inconsistent, but in fact he had a hidden foreshadowing.

He knew Yao Ming would jump in.

"We lost, where is the respect?"

"Because the Lakers did not win respect, they played with you in the seventh game before advancing but were scolded as if they lost the tiebreak."

"Since the Lakers have not won respect, it means that your performance has far exceeded the expectations of the outside world, and even if you lose, it is worthy of respect." Xie Hou was so kind.

Yao Ming accepted his remarks with a wry smile.

The Red Team was eliminated, but they still won. They only have one center with averaging data that is almost close to "20-10" and was injured before the series was finished. Two forwards (Josh and Diamonds) whose basketball IQ is disproportionate to physical fitness, two defenders who often have brains and strong defenses, make 20,000 people at home cry out in despair (Weaver, Black Bean), a living fossil center who may have aged enough to be Yao Ming's father, a pair of substitute insiders who are about the same height as most shooting guards (Hayes), a defender who can only play as a substitute in a bad team like the Grizzlies but starts at the Red Team (Lorry), and a group of character players who don't know what their characteristics are.

They played seven games with the Lakers, the number one in the West. Failure is destined, and no one has ever believed that they could defeat the Lakers. What is even more unimaginable than defeating the Lakers is that they actually played seven games with the Lakers, and they were just like those cockroaches who would rather be beaten to hold the opponent's legs to show their strength, and they died gloriously.

"Most of their people seemed so ordinary in the league at that time. Just like you, me, and most people in this world. We usually have great dreams and are shattered, so we find a way of life that suits us, and continue, sometimes speculate, sometimes retreat. This way of life is not wrong: the vast majority of people in this world are unfortunate, and people must live a cautious life. But this team, they did a lot of work that did not gain, and they beat the Lakers like this, and they were in three games. In the seventh game, they didn't come and there was no need to continue procrastinating, tangling and desperate, but they continued. The seventh game was him.

The microcosm of their entire season: Under that trend, their ending was long destined to be forgotten as a legend of losers. This sense of frustration and tragic fate is enough to make people lose their fighting spirit. But they rushed to failure with the fighting spirit of no second team in the world - a team that will fight for the disappointment and defeat that will sooner or later. And this is what I, and many ordinary people like me, hope that I can do. I will remember this game. In a long time, I will lose interest in basketball, but the story that happened in April will become a unique memory like thousands of ordinary people, including me." - The popular comment from the well-known domestic basketball forum Zhan Pu on the red team after the defeat in the tiebreak.

After that day, Xie Hou got up as usual for breakfast, chatted and laughed with his wife to make his daughter happy, and rushed to the training center in the afternoon to complete the daily training class.

They are about to face the same challenges as the Red Team.

The Red Team fell in front of the No. 1 in the West.

They were lucky enough to pass the first round and did not appreciate the strength of the East until the semi-finals.

They have three days to rest.

In the past three days, Thibodeau hopes that players will be allocated reasonably and not do too many unnecessary things to waste physical fitness.

Xie Hou failed to listen to his suggestions. In those days, he drained and released all the energy in his body.

"Arthur, you practice like this. Don't be weak when you fight the bulls." Teammates' jokes came to him.

Xie Hou turned over and snorted: "Even if you have weak feet, I won't be weak. This training intensity is nothing to me."
Chapter completed!